Billions in Russian oil sale profits are stuck in Indian banks, marking a blow to President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to stop using the U.S. dollar for trade.
Commodities such as oil, gold and wheat are typically traded around the globe in U.S. dollars, the world’s reserve currency.
However Russia’s financial system was essentially isolated by Western sanctions imposed after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, making his country unable to make transactions in greenbacks, thus limiting trade.
You only think that getting your defensive line breached and continuing to lose ground 565 days into your 3 day offensive is bad if you’re in a propaganda bubble.
No no, it’s all part of Putin’s 4D-chess masterplan!
[Snorts copium]
Oh dear. And you’re accusing others of being in a propaganda bubble.
You do have a point. It’s actually the second defensive line breached now.
(If you click on the link, hit the little castle icon to show the defensive fortifications.)
You can read in more detail about that infinitesimal advance here.
This is the topographic map. They’ve walked into the lowest lying aread surrounded on all sides by higher ground.
This is what they got for months of throwing tens of thousands of lives into the meat grinder for burgerland. Bravo!
Your map also agrees the first defensive line has been breached. Will you recant your statement that such a claim is propaganda?
No, it’s propaganda to maintain that this is meaningful or significant.